Security News > 2022 > April > Russian hacktivists launch DDoS attacks on Romanian govt sites
The Romanian national cyber security and incident response team, DNSC, has issued a statement about a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks targeting several public websites managed by the state entities.
DNSC is now collaborating with other authorities in the country to map these attacks and mitigate their effect.
According to the main intelligence service in Romania, SRI, the DDoS attack started at local time 04 A.M. and it originated from compromised network equipment outside the country that had been compromised by exploiting security vulnerabilities.
Killnet explained on in a post on a messaging service that the attacks are in response to a recent statement made by the President of Romania's Senate, Marcel Ciolacu , who promised to provide Ukraine with maximum assistance, including weapons.
The same group has previously launched DDoS attacks against sites in the U.S., Czech, Estonian, German, and Polish sites, all for similar political reasons, requesting to stop the supply of military weapons and equipment to Ukraine.
These attacks have been going on since at least the end of March 2022, exploiting bad security on WordPress sites to plant malicious JavaScipt that generates requests to attack specific targets.